Welcome to The Architecture of Staged Realities
We are delighted to invite you to the opening of 'The Architecture of Staged Realities' at Het Nieuwe Instituut on Saturday 4 September.
Peek behind the scenes of Walt Disney's movies and discover the wonderful reality of his world of fantasies and fairy-tale castles.
4 September 2021 17:00 - 20:00
Curated by Saskia van Stein, The Architecture of Staged Realities exhibition tells a story of worldly dreams and the interplay of imagination and reality. It explores Disney's fusion of nostalgic longing and a dreamed-up future, the designed stories of an 'ideal' society, and the influence of these fictional norms and cultural codes on us all.
The scenography of the exhibition was developed by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave. Irene Stracuzzi provided the graphic design.
_The Architecture of Staged Realities _presents stories big and small from the following architects, artists and designers:
Khalid Amakran, Bas van Beek, Ashok Bhalotra, Piet Blom, Koos Breen, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Jo Coenen, Carlos Diniz, Benjamin Earl, Adam Nathaniel Furman, FAT Architects in cooperation with Crimson Architectural Historians, Pete Ho Ching Fung, Jord den Hollander in cooperation with MMX Architecten, Oskar Johanson, Afaina de Jong, Rob Krier, Clara Lezla, Alessandro Mendini, Donna van Milligen Bielke, Monadnock, MVRDV, Mart van Schijndel, OMA, Mariske Pemmelaar-Groot, Aldo Rossi, Lara Schrijver, Ghita Skali, Helmut Smits, Sjoerd Soeters, Jaakko van 't Spijker, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Studio Ossidiana, Pilvi Takala, Simon Wald-Lasowksi, WAM Architecten, Kem Weber and Marga Weimans.
Short interviews with some of the artists and designers will be shown in the auditorium during the opening.
The Architecture of Staged Realities was made possible thanks to the generous support of: